Uruguayan health authorities on Sunday reported four new A/H1N1 influenza cases, bringing the total in the country to 22.

Three of them are students from private colleges in Montevideo and the other is a woman who recently returned from the United States and lives in the western Uruguayan province of Rio Negro.

The Public Health Ministry said in an official statement on Saturday that like other cases diagnosed, the woman was at home with H1N1 flu symptoms but no further complications.

Also on Sunday, the ministry ordered a one-week closure of two private secondary schools in the capital, because three cases of A/H1N1 flu were found in one of the schools.

(Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2009)